stave sth↔off

ˌstave sth↔ˈoff(staved,staved)to prevent sth bad from affecting you for a period of time; to delay sth暂时挡住（坏事）；延缓，推迟（某事物）to stave off hunger暂时解饿

• aurum
• go swimmingly
• cobaeas
• blue cheer
• spar varnish
• pelagic whaling
• Bose-Einstein condensation
• medicos
• world-old
• pawn one's word
• neck and neck
• frankpledges
• xenophobe
• Schoenheimer, Rudolf
• whale oil
• nitrifyings
• long relief pitcher
• consonantal
• melilites
• a peck of trouble
• agreeings
• Addams, Jane
• draw it fine
• give pause to
• taglock
• confuted
• pedal ganglion
• buffet with
• Transvaaler
• shilly-shallyings
• hasteless
• Ewald-sphere construction
• close a deal / sale / contract etc
• videographers
• railway letter
• jour
• aristocratical
• deuteromycetess
• diestrum
• hyperconsciousness
• preventive medicines
• snowshoe rabbit
• quadrumana
• heart murmur
• trap address
• in common
• high-definition television
• Treasure State
• ottava rimas
• pushover
• financeable
• sideliner
• haul the wind
• resistance lamp
• self-administereds
• modernists
• the bottom drops/falls out (of sth)
• alveolar macrophage
• clyses
• upon one's word of honour
• toxic neuritis
• Mercator sailing
• pachytene
• lose your temper
• keep yourself busy
• choreas
• be sporting sth
• gabardines
• tinier
• representation allowance
• thermal reactors
• lumpfishes
• be perfection
• deoxygenise
• muntined
• Holy Trinity
• secondaries
• tactically
• eyeopener
• wrigglingly
• croakers
• temporization
• fightbacks
• freehold
• shallops
• punditheid
• chargelin
• currency cocktail
• molecular physics
• Gretna marriage
• be too big for one's shoes
• telecomm
• dromomania
• pseudoporphyritic
• minute hand
• angle bar
• prosodeme
• suber
• choke ring
• descriptive bibliography